She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

123 All Messed Up

Scarlett’s POV

I have never felt so bad in my life.

To my “family“, I have always bullied Ava. I broke her stuff, and I said mean things to her. I did. I have broken her stuff before, but mostly replaceable stuff like the pile of shit I threw out of the window today. And mostly because she broke my things first, or that she broke them herself and blamed me.

I have never broken something this meaningful for anyone, especially Ava. Maybe it just doesn’t happen often enough so that I’m feeling like sitting on a thousand needles?

Ava has been crying — fake crying – in front of her room while Alfred cleans it for a while now. I have been sitting on the empty dinner table and waiting for her cry to turn into a real one, for a while.

I got really good at telling apart her real and fake cries — her nose gets stuffed when it’s real. That means she hasn’t realized the apple of her eye is several pieces of an apple now.

I feel like I’m sitting on fire.

I kept telling myself that it would be okay. I no longer see them as families, so I’m not afraid of them! But I can’t stop my mind from rehearsing what would happen over and over again as it tires itself out.

Guilt. This is what real guilt feels like,

believe myself… Maybe I should say that I was just really mad at Ava,

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mind. Maybe if

by my ear as

chair at his mean scare! “Are you trying to give me a heart attack?” I hiss at him my heart pounding in my chest so loud

out a light,

happened like, every day?” He cocks his eyebrows, having his

I glare at him.

carefully at my eyes as if doing accurate science, “You don’t look like someone who does evil

you do,” I retort back nastily, “and who’s your

frowns lightly, and I turn

and

know part of my anger is because I’m on edge now,

every right, MRS. Knight,” He stresses the word Mrs, smirking evilly as he reaches for my

to slap him another share right here right now if I didn’t know better than to give him

beg me for it?” try to pull my wrist out. He